In the United States, a nine-year-old boy at the match of the main professional baseball league in the USA and Canada Major League Baseball caught the ball and presented it with an 80-year-old spectator who celebrated his birthday at the stadium. It is reported by CBS News.
In baseball matches, almost everyone dreams of getting a foul-blade, and schoolboy Jameson Pennings was no exception. Together with their parents, they came to watch the home game of the Philadelphia Phillies teams against the New York Mets. The family sat in places located along the line of the third base, just where the ball sometimes throws the ball to the stands of the team.
In the fifth Innings of the game, Jameson occurred caught the treasured ball, which in baseball is called foul-blade. “He sat and carefully held him, even asked:“ Dad, this is the very place where the ball hit the bat? ”. I said: “Yes, it is it,” the boy’s father told reporters, the man was sure that his son would keep this sports relic forever. However, then what was struck by the boy’s parents.
It turned out that at the beginning of the match, Jameson heard the conversation of one of the spectators with the assistants of one of the teams. The woman asked them to help catch a foul-blade for her mother, who celebrated his 80th anniversary at the stadium. The schoolboy understood that it was possible to understand the ball from the field, as a rule, only to children, and the chances of an elderly woman were minimal. Then he decided to give her his ball, the boy went to the birthday girl and handed her his trophy.
The woman was surprised and touched by the boy’s act. “I thought that she was much older, she is unlikely to be able to watch a lot of games, besides, it was her birthday, and I can get to the match more than once and get other balls. I feel very well due to what I did. So does it matter that I was left on this day without a ball? ”Jameson explained.
frames: CBS News
